Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API

Re:Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API by city41 on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:36PM (#5650983)

It's a neat idea but I can't imagine I'd ever actually use this for real testing. Relying on a third party server for your tests can be a problem. We also have thousands of tests that rely on mocked REST responses, setting them up with Mocky would be a ton of work.

If Mocky could be ran onsite and had a nice API for easily generating mock responses, then I think it would be more useful.

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Re:Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API by yotsumi on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:43PM (#5651022)

It's an open source project, created 2 days ago. All is possible, this website is just a proof of concept. And you can fork the project to run it locally.

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Re:Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API by city41 on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:48PM (#5651056)

Yeah I realize that. I hope I didn't come across too harsh. It is a good idea, and I'd like to see it grow some more.

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Re:Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API by johns on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:44PM (#5651032)

What do you use for your existing tests? VCR?

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Re:Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API by city41 on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:51PM (#5651077)

We've rolled our own system inside Jasmine that mocks out XHR. It's generally in the form of:

    @ajax.whenQuerying('someendpoint').respondWith(someData)

And internal to that system we have some components that understand the overall shape of our data model so someData can be a very small, simple object with just the data the test cares about and the internals flesh out the rest.

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